The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-13

only from others, that they would begin
A, B, Cs, and learn to read for themselves
1t is, he said, very easy to learn to read the
language, and though it would take them
i've minutes to read verse, one could see
on their faces their intense delight
A TURKISH GIRLS CONVERSION.
He related the case of Turkish girl who
was troubled with sore eyes and went to an
Armenian woman to have them cured.
While, as he puts it, the Armenian was
opening her fieshy eyes she opened also her
spiritual eyes, and so pleased was the girl
with the teachings of Christianity that She
forsook Mohammedanism. When she re-
turned to her parents they were very
angry at what they considered
her apostacy. They tried to force her
to pray to Mohammed, but she refused, and
her father was going to kill her, but the
neighbors pleaded for her and finally in
duced the father TO spare her, and event
ualiy she converted her family, though she
would have died rather than return to
Accommodation. These incidents he cited,
showing how strong hold Christianity
took upon those peoples when once they
learned its beauties.
AN APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS.
Mr. Gabrielian then made an earnest APP
peal to the Christians of this land to exert
themselves to the utmost to carry to these
people, who were willing to receive it, the
Gospel of Christ, and lead them from the
awful horrors of Northumberland The
sword would never wipe from the earth that
monster, he said; the only sword that could
Stay him is the Bible, and, in the name of
Christ, he reminded the Christian world of
His covenant; "Go we into the world aud
preach the Gospel to every creature"
Referring to the incident of the Turkish
girls he said that the father of the family
had ah-
family, and it was nothing uncommon for a
Turk to Kill his daughter for disobedience
Owing to the many prosecutions through
which the ArmenianS had passed they were
very poor and their churches were only the
bare walls and roofs There was no fur
niture and in many cases no floors.
THE FORM OF WORSHIP.
The people sat, or rather squatted, on the
ground for two or three hours every morn
ing and evening and the priest conducted
service in ancient Armenian, which is now
almost dead language, as none of the
people and but few of the priests understand
it. After the service the priest brought the
Bible into the congregation for each to kiss,
and there was mad rush to get to
it and kiss it. Poor as the people
are, there is a church and school house
in every village, but they belong to the
Roman Catholics, and the Protestants were
nOG allowed 10 use them. But they were
building churches and school houses of their
own. Forty years ago they had but one
church and but thirty members, but now
they have 100 churches 5000 members and
a Protestant community Of $1,000.
Each nationality comprised within the
Ottoman Empire in Europe-and there are
nine-had its own school-houseS and taught
its own language and Turkish and not only
did each nationality but each religious
division thereof have its separate schools.
The Roman Catholic AlmeDians have theirs,
and the Protestants now have $50 and an
attendance of $4,000 children. Education is
becoming more generally diffused, and the
more they learn the more readily and
greedily they accept Christianity.
Mr.. Gabrielian spoke for nearly an hour,
but so interesting and instructive was his
discourse that it seemed but a few minutes.
de speaks with very strong foreign accent,
but the English he uses is stri1ingly pure.